Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keep readers abreast of great events that affect the course of history, TIME'S correspondents, writers and editors work long and intensely on the big stories, e.g., the Geneva conference of foreign ministers (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Toward the Testing, and FOREIGN NEWS, The First Step). But many TIME stories that cast new and fascinating light on life lie far from the scene of such historic encounters. Some of this week's examples...
...Geneva with great expectations," said he. "The past record of negotiating with the Soviets does not warrant much optimism." Still, the West intends, "in good faith, to seek some advance, even if small, toward a just peace." The U.S. is willing to go on to the summit if the Geneva meeting gives "some promise that a summit meeting would have a reasonable prospect of advancing the cause of peace." Afterward, "official spokesmen" passed the word that the West would not go to the summit at all if the Russians made any move to alter the German situation unilaterally...
...recognizes the danger of too much Southern identification; smoothly, in recent months, Texan Lyndon has changed to Western plumage.* Now, with a speech in Pennsylvania and two more at week's end in Boston, he was in position to determine how true and tender might be the North toward a presidential bird named Lyndon Johnson...
After a month at the Black Sea, Nikita Khrushchev was tanned and full of beans, homilies, pleasantries and high spirits. Except for his bluster at a group of German editors about nuclear annihilation, he radiated good will toward the rest of the world. In fact, he seemed to be on a Be-Kind-to-Americans...
...Chinese Communist Ilyushin-14 airliner swept off a Rangoon runway last week and wheeled toward Russia with a drugged, closely guarded wreck of a man as cargo. The man aboard: Soviet Colonel Mikhail I. Stryguine. whose bizarre experience resembled Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina's "jump to freedom" from the Russian consulate in Manhattan almost eleven years ago-except that Colonel Stryguine did not make...